Playing House

This weekend we watched little Miss Shelby while her parents went on a fun trip to Park City with Jeff's work. I picked her up & we went shopping in Ikea where we bought her an ice cream cone she proceeded to make a cute mess with and a new toy panda bear. Gotta help her remember her roots somehow.

Anyways we ended up spending a little too much time shopping and we were about an hour late picking up Uncle Kellan so instead of getting homemade pizza we picked up some for dinner. If this is any indication of how we'll feed our kids regularly we're not going to get any nutritional awards. In our defense we did get Shelby to eat her veggies. It was her first foray with artichoke and it was hilarious.

Watching Tangled together, he's going to be such a good daddy. 

It was all going great, until we tried to put her down for bed. She fell asleep very quickly but when I tried to move her to her crib she woke up and lost it. She screamed so hard she threw up. Twice. All over Kellan and our spare bed. 

But even after all that Uncle Kelly is still her favorite and she loves following him around all over the place. Precious. 

Birthday Bash

This year we threw my mom a big birthday bash, & by we I mean Jim, I just told people what to buy. Anyways, it turned out pretty cute and we had a fun time getting everything set up.

Actually it turned out the way I wish our reception had, simple & elegant, so it was a little bittersweet to see how much I liked it. & because it was so much easy to put together. I did spend a few nights getting together the table runners though because I couldn't see the point in spending a fortune for eight long table runners we'd never use again & I couldn't find any to rent. So I hand dyed about 20 yards of linen and then sewed them into runners, but that was really the most time consuming part about the whole set up. It was wonderful. 

Oh, and we didn't have time to set up the cafe lights but c'est la vie. 

Kellan & the cousins had far too much fun playing with all the candles and lighting the flowers on fire. Boys. But even with that the night went off without a hitch. It was an evening filled with lots of yummy food and good company. 

After all the guests had cleared out we packed up all the tables and chiavari chairs and spent the rest of the night drinking root beer and playing Werewolf in the backyard. Perks of the Las Vegas heat. 

We're excited for our next trip out for my favorite event of the year....  THANKSGIVING!!

Yum, I'm already getting hungry just thinking about it :)